If you don’t already have your own veggie patch out the back full of thriving organic food then it’s time you check out my very good friend, Nicola Chatham’s Abundant Veggie Patch System!
What is the Abundant Veggie Patch System?
The Abundant Veggie Patch System is an online organic gardening course packed with practical videos, audios, checklists and resources that will help you design, create and upkeep your own veggie patch so you can enjoy an abundance of fresh, organic food right outside your back-door.
This online course is broken down into the following five modules all packed with goodness:
Module 1: Designing Your Garden for Abundance
- Why Design is the most important factor in creating an abundant veggie patch you actually USE.
- How to save time, effort and energy in your garden.
- How to make it so easy to choose healthy food and herbal teas you won’t be able to stop yourself from making healthy & delicious choices.
- The first step in finding out WHERE to put your veggie patch.
- What all the fuss is about veggies needing sunshine.
- How some basic geography and orienteering will help you create an abundant veggie patch.
- Two simple solutions you may never have considered if you don’t have much sun. These are places that are staring you right in the face, and could be the answer to creating your own abundant garden.
- The second exercise that will clearly show you the ideal location to put your veggie patch.
- Why size does matter.
- Why even if you put your garden in the right place, but then use the wrong dimensions, you’ll be wasting your energy and destroying the most important element in your garden.
- An exact way to find the optimum size plot for your situation.
- How wide you need to make your paths.
- A simple method to visualise your design, even if you can’t draw anything.
Module 2: Gathering Your Resources
- All about the ‘intimate relationship’ between edging and weeds.
- Four diverse and useful materials you can use for edging your garden beds and the pros and cons of each.
- What a raised garden bed is and six reasons they’re so popular.
- Which edging options I used, why I chose them and what I recommend beginning with.
- Where to find materials for your garden edging.
- Seven options for creating pathways that lead you easily to your abundant harvest.
- Real life examples of different paths and how they serve their owners.
- How to decide where to begin and what I recommend.
- Where to find materials for your paths (if you need any at all!)
- Why making your own soil is the key to an abundant veggie patch.
- The simple scientific formula that makes creating your own soil fail safe, easy and fun. And something the kids will enjoy too!
- The two main elements that make soil and how you can get your hands on them no matter where you live.
- The secret ingredient that all successful Permaculture gardeners I know use to make soil, fast.
- How to ensure your soil has all the nutrients you and your plants need for a healthy immune system.
Module 3: Soil Creation Extravaganza!!!
- How to make compost that breaks down quickly and doesn’t smell.
- What is safe to put into your compost and what to leave out.
- A nifty method to make it easy to save your kitchen scraps in a totally ‘non-icky’ way.
- How to create soil that ensures your plants thrive.
- The most important work force in your garden and how you can get them working for you for free.
- How to use cheap, readily available organic ingredients to speed up the creation of your nutritious soil.
- The important soil creation ingredient needed to ensure your fresh food is full of minerals and therefore great for your health.
Module 4: Planting Your Smorgasboard
- Two types of plants I recommend every beginner start with and why even if you only grow these, you’ll greatly increase the abundance in your garden, meals and health.
- How to create abundance in shady spots, with this list of plants that cope with shade.
- A list of Permaculture plants that will substantially increase the sustainability and productivity of your garden.
- How to find plants that fit your ‘Sweet Spot’ and why planting anything else is setting yourself up for disappointing results.
- The 3 all important questions to ask before you plant anything (this could save you hours of time& effort)
- How to customise your own personal planting calendar.
- Four extra special planting tips to increase your abundance & planting success.
- Why growing from seed can sometimes be the best way to go.
- How to know when to plant seeds direct into the soil or if you should plant into seed raising pots first.
- What sort of soil to plant into.
- The method I’ve had the best results from sowing seeds, and the simple steps you can follow too.
- How to sow seeds directly into your no-dig garden.
- Two quick and easy propagation methods to increase the abundance in your garden by creating free plants.
- How I got many of the plants in my garden, not from the store, but for free.
- Four clever Permaculture planting principles to increase the abundance in your garden with no extra effort.
- A simple formula to bring clarity around your garden and check if you’re on track, when life gets busy.
- The secret to every gardener’s long-term success.
Module 5: Upkeep Your Abundance
- 8 simple methods to discourage pests and diseases, without using chemicals.
- The long-held beliefs we’ve been raised with as civilized societies that torment us and make more work for ourselves.
- What weeds REALLY mean in your garden – are they a friend or foe?
- 3 Stress-free methods for managing weeds in your veggie patch.
- Why a weed in time saves nine.
- What to do with weeds that have gone to seed.
- 4 Clever, and simple ways weeds HELP you in the garden.
- What’s personality got to do with weeding?
- How to maintain your no-dig garden bed.
- What to do when the season is over and your plants have finished producing.
- What to do with perennial plants in a no-dig garden.
- 4 Ways to increase your soil’s fertility, and thereby your garden’s productivity and abundance.
- How important is water, anyway?
- Four nifty options to water your garden on any budget.
- Six ways to save water in your veggie patch.
- How to know when your plants really need a drink, and they’re not just ‘faking’ it.
- Tips to make watering a pleasure and not a mess.
So are you ready to get your hands dirty + start growing your own organic goodness for all those juices + smoothies + yummy meals?? Then click here now!
Enrollment for the course closes THIS THURSDAY AT MIDNIGHT (Brisbane, Australia time).
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